This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American > American Literature – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Whom does Mr.Haley choose from among Shelby's slaves? A) Eliza and Harry. B) Uncle Tom and Cassy. C) Uncle Tom and Eliza. D) Uncle Tom and Harry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uncle Tom and Harry. 2. Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" took place in..... A) The Rocky Mountains. B) The Appalachian Mountains. C) The Sierra Nevada Mountains. D) The Sierra Madre Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Sierra Nevada Mountains. 3. The Puritans who settled Plymouth Colony were separating Puritans which meant? A) Continue being apart of the Church of England. B) Reform. C) Separate from the Church of England. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Separate from the Church of England. 4. What was one theme in the period of independence? A) National identity. B) Political conflicts. C) Urban and european vs indigenous and rural. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 5. Which member of the corn clan could not overlook the wrondoings of the rest of the clan? A) The youngest member. B) The oldest member. C) The priest's son. D) The chief's son. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The priest's son. 6. What did John Smith write? A) Jason and Isolde. B) General History of Virginia. C) Declaration of Independence. D) Journal of an Expedition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) General History of Virginia. 7. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Walt Whitman? A) Father of free verse. B) Father of American Poetry. C) Circumference. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 8. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Nathaniel Hawthorne? A) Popular early nosiest. B) Romantisum. C) Scarlett letter. D) All are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All are correct. 9. Who "haunts" the evil Simon Legree when he is drunk? A) Cassy. B) Eliza. C) George. D) Uncle Tom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cassy. 10. Which American President reportedly referred to Harriet Beecher Stowe as "the little lady who made this big war" ? A) George Washington. B) John Adams. C) Abraham Lincoln. D) John. F. Kennedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abraham Lincoln. 11. About the Iroquois A) Dekonawidah planted the Tree of Great Peace. B) Powerful enemy of the Delaware tribe. C) The tribe drafted a constitution to define the governance of their society. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 12. The house of this Puritan poet burned down A) Elizabeth Browning. B) Eliza Snow. C) George Elliot. D) Anne Bradstreet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anne Bradstreet. 13. The lesson the young man teaches Dorothy is A) To hide here emotion. B) To live and enjoy her life. C) To fight with people. D) Not to lodge a complaint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To live and enjoy her life. 14. This author wrote of the Pilgrims' voyage to the New World A) Bradford Nelson. B) William Holden. C) Nelson Holden. D) William Bradford. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Bradford. 15. To Whom does Franklin say he is addressing his autobiography part 1? A) Himself. B) Indians. C) His son, john. D) His son, William. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His son, William. 16. What animal is personified as the trickster in the Winnebago tale? A) Bear. B) Coyote. C) Snake. D) Hare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hare. 17. Which is one of the five tenants of Puritanism? A) Total equality. B) Unconditional love. C) Individualism. D) Irresistible grace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irresistible grace. 18. Which of Washington Irving's characters falls asleep for twenty years? A) Tom Buchanan. B) Tom Joad. C) Philip Marlowe. D) Rip van Winkle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rip van Winkle. 19. "Gradually light returns to the street" means A) Life resumes to normal routine. B) It is day break. C) Streets are bright. D) Life is unpredictable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Life resumes to normal routine. 20. Who wrote "Barn burning" ? A) Rober Lee frost. B) Eugene O' Neil's. C) Tennesse Williams. D) William Faulkner's. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Faulkner's. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesAmerican Literature Quiz 1American Literature Quiz 2American Literature Quiz 3American Literature Quiz 5American Literature Quiz 6American Literature Quiz 7American Literature Quiz 8American Literature Quiz 9American Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books